Active materials /

Active materials / / edited by Peter Fratzl [and three others].

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What are active materials? This book aims to introduce and redefine conceptions of matter by considering materials as entities that 'sense' and respond to their environment. By examining the modeling of, the experiments on, and the construction of these materials, and by developing a theor...

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Superior document:De Gruyter STEM
TeilnehmendeR:
Fratzl, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021]
©2021
Udgivelsesår:2021
Sprog:English
Serier:De Gruyter STEM.
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource (vi, 372 pages) :; illustrations.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Materials Matter: Introduction / Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen
  • On the Activity of Materials / Peter Fratzl and Wolfgang Schäffner
  • INTERVIEWS: SCIENTISTS ON ACTIVE MATTER
  • Interview with Thomas Speck: "You Don't Want to Build an Oak Tree - You Want to Invent It." Plants as Active Matter / Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen and Thomas Speck
  • On Responsive and Adaptive Materials / Joanna Aizenberg, Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen
  • Interview with John Dunlop: Shape-Changing Materials / John Dunlop and Karin Krauthausen
  • Interview with Jean-François Joanny: Activity, Instabilities, and Defects / Michael Friedman, Jean-François Joanny and Karin Krauthausen
  • Interview with Barbara Mazzolai: Plants, Plantoids, and Active Materials / Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen and Barbara Mazzolai
  • Interview with Robert Shepherd: On Soft Robots, Biomimetics, and Beyond / Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen and Robert Shepherd
  • Interview with Ramin Golestanian: Living Matter, or What Is Life? / Michael Friedman, Ramin Golestanian and Karin Krauthausen
  • Interview with Nikolaus Correll: Robotic Materials / Nikolaus Correll, Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen
  • ESSAYS: PART 1: CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND DESIGN PERSPECTIVES
  • Rethinking Active Matter: Current Developments in Active Materials
  • 1 What Is Activity? An Introduction / Mohammad Fardin Gholami, Lorenzo Guiducci, Susanne Jany and Khashayar Razghandi
  • Matter of Agency: Active Materials in Digital Design Research / Ianis Lallemand
  • ESSAYS: PART 2: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Unsystematic Vitality: From Early Modern Beeswarms to Contemporary Swarm Intelligence / Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon and Charles T. Wolfe
  • Leibniz's Concept of Agens in Matter, Space, and Image
  • 1 The Metaphysical Force of Nature / Horst Bredekamp
  • Rhetoric's Active Matters
  • 1 Preliminary Remarks / Stephan Kammer
  • Proteins as Monads / Sonia Dheur and Sven J. Saupe
  • Index.

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